A fervently Orthodox yeshiva in Lakewood, N.J., has been recommended to receive $10.6 million in public grants as part of a $1.3 billion higher-education construction package submitted to the New Jersey State Legislature Monday.

New York, NY – Councilman David G. Greenfield joined City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Transportation Committee Chairman James Vacca at a press conference today in Manhattan to announce new legislation that will resolve

New York – The New York State Senate today gave final passage to legislation that would provide important protections for child victims who have been severely abused by their parents or guardians. The bill

Rye Brook. NY – The Westchester County Health Department says a hotel is undergoing an industrial cleaning after hundreds of people got sick with suspected norovirus. About 100 people who attended an April 20

Kingston, NY – Fresh off a January decision by a state Supreme Court Justice to dismiss a case involving last year’s permits, Ulster County officials are bracing for another go-around in the battle between

Rockland County, NY – An Orthodox Jewish woman from Monsey is suing French make-up giant Lancome for false advertising, charging that its “24-hour” foundation “faded” while she observed Sabbath. The NEW YORK POST (http://bit.ly/18oNdsb)

Monday afternoon was payback time for Alan Dershowitz at Cardozo Law School, the scene of a recent award by students to former President Jimmy Carter for conflict resolution. Asserting that “mistakes should be turned

The sudden death of a cousin in Florida several years ago forced Erica Brown, left, the Jewish scholar, educator and writer (and Jewish Week columnist), into the role of spiritual adviser and counselor for

Italian photographer Federica Valabrega always believed religious women were oppressed and unhappy. A 29-year-old secular Jew originally from Rome, Valabrega rarely had any interactions with religious people, and while she was intrigued by their

In the Jerusalem of his youth, the religious neighborhoods that lay near Gil Cohen-Magen’s secular Kiryat Hayovel in the southwest corner of the capital were foreign territory, just a few hundred yards away. The